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Physical Astronomy, c1780-c1803

 Item
Identifier: Coll-204/34
Scope and Contents

Volume contains manuscript notes on physical astronomy, which is to say, the governing laws of planetary motion, with numerous diagrams and tables.

Dates: c1780-c1803
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Lecture Notes of John Robison

Quarto A, c1680-c1708

 Series — Box Dk.1.2: Series Coll-33/Quarto A; Series Coll-33/Folio B; Series Coll-33/Folio D; Series Coll-33/Folio E
Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A
Scope and Contents The papers of David Gregory in Quarto A consist of: 107 manuscript papers and an index, relating to: theoretical physics, including optics, especially treatises on refraction and colour, on mechanics, specifically on velocity, gravitation, centrifugal and centripetal force, and the movement of solids through fluid, and an occasional thought on magnetic attraction. Applied physics, considering ships,...
Dates: c1680-c1708
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory

Reports by J.S. Hey and others, 1944-1946

 File
Identifier: Coll-37/C.230
Scope and Contents

Reports by J.S. Hey and others. The material is on meteors and it includes O.R.G. Report 348 [Army Operational Research Group] describing observations October 1944-April 1946.

Dates: 1944-1946
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Research topics / Meteor Trails / Correspondence and data

Shelf list, s.d.

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio E [71]
Scope and Contents

Part of what appears to be a shelf list of some library's holdings in astronomy.

Dates: s.d.
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio E

Summarium nostra Astronomiae Phys: et Geom:, c1690

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [56(2)]
Scope and Contents

One-page summary of Gregory's major textbook.

Dates: c1690
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Quarto A

Table of corrections, c1704

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio E [065]
Scope and Contents

Corrigenda, probably for the Astronomiae.

Dates: c1704
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio E

'The Radar detection of meteor trails', c. 1946

 File
Identifier: Coll-37/C.222
Scope and Contents

'The Radar detection of meteor trails'. The material consists of a 3 page typescript draft and a copy of the published paper, dated 1946.

Dates: c. 1946
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Research topics / Meteor Trails / Drafts and notes

Varia positiones ... in prob: Pappi, c1703

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [59]
Scope and Contents

Latin and English notes on Pappus, probably in connection with his book project on the ancient geometers.

The third side of this item is unrelated, a copy of an 1707 letter from Gregory, Christopher Wren, Isaac Newton, and others, to Danish astronomer Olav Roemer, concerning the Astronomiae, and accuracy of certain calculations and observations by Flamsteed and Tycho Brahe. The Tycho ms. is probably the 1627 Tabulae Rudolphinae, translated by Kepler.

Dates: c1703
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Quarto A

Varied Motions, c1780-c1803

 Item
Identifier: Coll-204/14
Scope and Contents

Volume contains manuscript notes on the geometry of motion, on materials science, and on astronomy; some jotted diagrams and tables attend.

Dates: c1780-c1803
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Lecture Notes of John Robison

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